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We're happy to be back today with the next in our series of chats with our 2014 DiabetesMine Patient Voices Scholarship winners, who’ll be representing the patient community at our 2014 DiabetesMine Innovation Summit at Stanford University in November.
Today we’re talking with Jeff Mather from Massachusetts, who's marking his 15th year of living with type 1 and is an active member of both the general Diabetes Online Community (DOC) and the D-tech circuit, i.e.…

Welcome back to Ask D’Mine -- the web's most quirky yet informative diabetes Q & A column, hosted by veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois.
This week, Wil's exploring the term "Type 3," and he's taking a look into the toilet bowl for us -- errr, so to speak, as he explores urine issues with diabetes. Never a dull moment here at the 'Mine!
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Welcome back! It's Saturday again, so time to curl up with a cup of tea/coffee and our weekly diabetes advice column, Ask D’Mine! This week, veteran type 1, diabetes author and educator Wil Dubois tackles a question we've never heard before about the probability that continuous glucose monitor (CGM) use might lead to cancer (?). He also has some thoughts about how to manage non-diabetes medical professionals when you're in the hospital... should an emergency…

There's been a longstanding discussion among patient advocates over the need for new, more descriptive names that would better differentiate between type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The debate has hit a climax this week, in the wake of a new online petition issued by two passionate D-Moms, who've gathered more than 2,800 signatures to date and even enlisted the support of some renown researchers in their call for a "rebranding" of disease types.
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Happy Valentine's Day! There is nothing quite like the support of a partner in dealing with diabetes, and we're even more in awe when we see partners "getting their hands dirty" with work in diabetes advocacy. Such is the case with Chris Barnes, husband to Brandy Barnes, the founder of the DiabetesSisters.org community. Brandy has hosted several national conferences for women with diabetes (we attended their Spring conference last year), and Chris has been a…